Languages in Contact: An Ethnographic Study of Interaction in an Immersion School

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Title
Languages in Contact: An Ethnographic Study of Interaction in an Immersion School
Abstract
Over a one-year period in the 1980s, the authors studied the staff interaction of an early French immersion program in a Montreal school. Staff at the school were made-up of French-speaking and English-speaking teachers. The authors found that the teachers used two main interaction strategies to minimize interpersonal conflict and maintain a semblance of professional harmony: 1) avoidance of social interaction; and 2) the predominant use of English in cross-group communication. The irony of how the staff interacted compared to the objectives of immersion school programs did not escape the authors' notice.
Publication
TESOL Quarterly
Volume
Vol. 18
Issue
no. 4
Pages
595-625
Date
December 1984
Language
en
Citation
Cleghorn, Ailie, and Fred Genesee. “Languages in Contact: An Ethnographic Study of Interaction in an Immersion School.” TESOL Quarterly Vol. 18, no. 4 (December 1984): 595–625.
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